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open source

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The U.S. gated its newest AI models. A Chinese lab gave one away.

Jun 30, 2026

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3 min read

The U.S. gated its newest AI models. A Chinese lab gave one away.

Plus: agents moving from scoring the loan to making the call, and a malicious AI tool that cleared review and reached 26,000 users.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

model risk

+10

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

Jun 24, 2026

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7 min read

Treat your AI agent like an inside threat

Plus: Lloyds aims AI agents at the moment of payment, an $88-a-week kit that clones trusted-brand sites, and Santander open-sources its AI guardrails.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+7

650 institutions let AI triage financial-crime. Should they?

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

650 institutions let AI triage financial-crime. Should they?

Plus: an AI agent bought the concert tickets, the government switched off Anthropic's three-day-old model, and regulators started asking about AI in exams.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+9

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone.

Plus: The 3 rules for putting agents in production, and an AI maturity model from Carnegie Mellon and Accenture.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

open source

+10

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

May 28, 2026

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4 min read

A 3-minute mortgage. How?

Plus: BNP's open-model bet, the 3% controls gap, and a nice conversation starter.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

infrastructure

+5

When the agent fails, who's liable?

May 20, 2026

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5 min read

When the agent fails, who's liable?

Plus: four deployments hit 70% automation, Colorado's AI deadline, and a kill switch that came too late.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+12

The model is not the product.

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

The model is not the product.

Plus: AWS agentic payments, a Microsoft prompt-injection flaw, AI liability carve-outs, and a bank scramble over Mythos.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+11

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

May 8, 2026

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6 min read

Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing

Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

agentic commerce

+10

Stripe rewired the credit card.

May 6, 2026

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7 min read

Stripe rewired the credit card.

Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the five eyes.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

credit unions

+10

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

Apr 29, 2026

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6 min read

This is the doomsday issue (don't panic)

A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finance has a seat at the table.

Brent Dixon
Brent Dixon

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